(22-23) Unit 6 Vocabulary - Westward Expansion

Question 1

Manifest Destiny

Answer 1

The belief that the United States was supposed to own land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Question 2

Annex

Answer 2

Add a location in the United States.

Question 3

Gadsden Purchase

Answer 3

treaty signed by United State of Mexico allow the US to buy land from Mexico’s Northside and complete Transcontinental Railroad.

Question 4

Gold Rush

Answer 4

a time from1848 to 1856 when thousands of people came to California in order to search (look) for gold.

Question 5

Compromise of 1850

Answer 5

proposed by Henry Clay, this plan was designed to balance slave states and non slave states in the United States. This also ended the slave trade in Washington D.C. and created the Fugitive Slave Act in response to runaway slaves.

Question 6

Mexican Cession

Answer 6

1848, land given to the US by Mexico in terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.

Question 7

Oregon Territory

Answer 7

land given to the United States from Great Britain in 1846 to settle border disputes between the two countries.

Question 8

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Answer 8

a treaty between US and Mexico to end US Mexican War.

Question 9

Mexican-American War

Answer 9

war between the United States and Mexico from 1846-1848 caused by the annexation of Texas.

Question 10

Texas Revolution

Answer 10

war from 1835-1836 between Mexico and Texas colonists that ended with Texas gaining (getting) their independence from Mexico, and becoming an independent country.